iZotope Stutter Edit Help Documentation

iZotope Stutter Edit Help

Documentation

Table of Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1

Welcome to iZotope Stutter Edit .............................................................................. 1

iZotope Customer Support ...................................................................................... 2

Quick Start ............................................................................................................. 3

First Steps ........................................................................................................... 3

Ableton Live ......................................................................................................... 4

Apple Logic .......................................................................................................... 8

Avid Pro Tools ..................................................................................................... 11

Cakewalk SONAR ................................................................................................ 13

Cockos Reaper .................................................................................................... 17

Image-Line FL Studio ........................................................................................... 20

MOTU Digital Performer ........................................................................................ 25

PreSonus Studio One ........................................................................................... 27

Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo .................................................................................... 29

Playing Your Effects ................................................................................................ 31

Understanding The Basics ..................................................................................... 31

How Gestures Work ............................................................................................. 32

Global Gesture Settings ........................................................................................ 35

Basic Module Controls .......................................................................................... 37

Global Filter ........................................................................................................ 39

Timeline Override ................................................................................................ 40

Presets ................................................................................................................. 41

Simple Preset Loading and Saving ......................................................................... 41

Preset Manager/Customizing Banks ....................................................................... 42

Stutter Modules ..................................................................................................... 45

Stutter Matrix ..................................................................................................... 45

Stutter .............................................................................................................. 46

Quantize ............................................................................................................ 47

Buffer Position .................................................................................................... 48

Gate Width ......................................................................................................... 49

Jump Pan ........................................................................................................... 50

Color Effects .......................................................................................................... 51

Stereo Delay ...................................................................................................... 51

Delay Band-Pass ................................................................................................. 52

Low/High-Pass Filter ............................................................................................ 53

Bit Reduction ...................................................................................................... 54

Lo-Fi ................................................................................................................. 55

Gain .................................................................................................................. 56

Generator ............................................................................................................. 57

Generator Gesture Length .................................................................................... 57

Noise Table and Gain ........................................................................................... 58

Pitch ................................................................................................................. 59

Lo-Fi ................................................................................................................. 60

Stutter Gate Send ............................................................................................... 61

Band-Pass Filter .................................................................................................. 62

Delay ................................................................................................................ 63

Settings ................................................................................................................ 64

Options .............................................................................................................. 64

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Welcome to iZotope Stutter Edit

Thanks for using Stutter Edit!

- the iZotope team

© 2001-2011 iZotope, Inc. All rights reserved. iZotope, iZotope.com, the iZotope logo, and Stutter Edit
are either registered trademarks or trademarks of iZotope, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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1. INTRODUCTION

iZotope Customer Support

How to purchase the full version of Stutter Edit

If you are using the demo version of Stutter Edit and would like the full version, you can
purchase Stutter Edit direct from the iZotope online store.

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/

Once your purchase is complete you will be sent an email confirmation and a full version
serial number that can be used to fully authorize your current installation of Stutter Edit.

Customer Support Policy

iZotope is happy to provide professional technical support to all registered users absolutely
free of charge. We also offer valuable pre-sales technical support to customers who may be
interested in purchasing an iZotope product. Before contacting iZotope support, you can
search our Product Knowledgebase to see if the solution to your problem has already been
published.

http://www.izotope.com/support/center

How to contact Technical Support

For additional help with Stutter Edit, please check out the support pages on our web site at

http://www.izotope.com/support or contact our customer support department at
[e-mail].

iZotope's highly trained support team is committed to responding to all requests within one
(1) business day and frequently respond faster. Please try to explain your problem with as
much detail and clarity as possible. This will ensure our ability to solve your problem
accurately, the first time around. Please include all system specs and the build/version of
Stutter Edit that you are using.

Once your support request is submitted, you should automatically receive a confirmation
email from iZotope support. If you do not receive this email within a few minutes please
check your spam folder and make sure our responses are not getting blocked. To prevent
this from happening please add [e-mail] to your list of allowed email
addresses.

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2. QUICK START

First Steps

Please choose from one of the supported audio host applications below for specific
instructions on getting up and running with Stutter Edit:

Ableton Live

Apple Logic

Avid Pro Tools

Cakewalk SONAR

Cockos Repear

Image-Line FL Studio

MOTU Digital Performer

PreSonus Studio One

Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo

Just want to hear some crazy sounds before you get all set up?

To immediately audition Stutter Edit's Gestures on your audio without a MIDI
controller, simply instantiate Stutter Edit on to an Audio Track in your host, and
while your host's transport is playing back, click and hold on any of the
keyboard notes inside of Stutter Edit's Preset Manager window.

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2. QUICK START

Ableton Live

1. Add Stutter Edit to either an individual Audio Track or to your Master Output.

2. Create a MIDI track (Create | Insert MIDI Track).

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3. From the "MIDI From" drop down menu on your newly created MIDI track, choose the
external controller you want to use to control Stutter Edit

4. Set the Monitor selector on the MIDI track to "In" instead of "Auto"

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5. From the "MIDI To" drop down, choose the track you have added Stutter Edit to.

6. Mash some keys with audio playing back ... there you go!

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2. QUICK START

Apple Logic

1. Create an Audio, Software Instrument, or Aux track that you want to manipulate with
Stutter Edit.

2. Next, create a new Software Instrument track.

3. Instantiate "Stutter Edit" by clicking and holding on the Input for this new Software
Instrument track. Stutter will be available under "AU MIDI-Controlled Effects" from the
Input effect menu.

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4. In the upper right-hand corner of the effect window (in Logic's plug-in UI container),
choose the audio path you want to apply Stutter Edit to from the Side Chain drop menu.

5. Make sure the Instrument track is selected in order to route any incoming MIDI
information to the Stutter Edit plug-in or click the "R" record button to record-enable your
incoming MIDI performance.

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2. QUICK START

Avid Pro Tools

1. Add Stutter Edit as an Insert plug-in onto any Track, Master Fader, or Bus. To do this,
click an empty insert slot on the track's mixer channel, and find Stutter Edit in the "Effect"
category.

2. Create a new MIDI track in your project. Go to the "Track | New" menu and choose MIDI
from the drop down list that specifies the track type you're creating.

3. On the Mixer channel for your new MIDI track, find the I/O section. Assign the Input to
the MIDI controller you want to use to control Stutter Edit.

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4. Assign the Output of the MIDI channel to Stutter Edit. You will see Stutter Edit in the list
if it is on any of your Pro Tools channels.

5. You can now trigger Gestures from a MIDI controller routed through this channel, or by
using the Piano Roll editor in Pro Tools to manually add notes. Enjoy!

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IMPORTANT

2. QUICK START

Cakewalk SONAR

In order to use Stutter Edit in SONAR and other Cakewalk hosts, you must load
the VSTi version as an effect. If you do not do this, you will not be able to
control Stutter Edit from a MIDI track or controller.

SONAR can only send MIDI information to VST plug-ins it classifies as an
"Instrument" - so you need to tell SONAR to use Stutter Edit as an "Instrument"
before you can use it on your tracks. After taking these steps, you'll be able to
find Stutter Edit listed under your "Soft Synths" rather than "Effects," but you'll
be able to add it as an insert effect to any track or bus.

Configure Stutter Edit as a "Synth"

1. After installing Stutter Edit, go to Cakewalk's Plug-in Manager (Tools | Cakewalk Plug-in
Manager).

2. Next, find Stutter Edit in the directory of VST plug-ins that are displayed and select it in
the list. (if you don't find it here, you may need to hit Scan VST Plug-ins first.

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3. Under the "VST Configuration" controls, press the "Plug-in Properties" button.

4. Make sure the "Configure as Synth" checkbox is selected.

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Add Stutter Edit to a Track or Bus

5. Right click on the Effects Bin for the track or bus you want to add Stutter Edit to.

6. Go to the Soft Synths category and select the Stutter Edit VST plug-in.

7. Create a new MIDI track in your SONAR project.

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8. On the MIDI track's output dropdown menu, choose Stutter Edit from the list.

9. You can now trigger Stutter Edit gestures from the MIDI track or from a MIDI controller
that SONAR is routing to this track. Enjoy!

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2. QUICK START

Cockos Reaper

1. Create a new Track (Track | Insert New Track).

2. Go to the FX button for the newly created Track, and choose "iZotope Stutter Edit" from
your VST Plug-ins folder.

3. Click the Arm button on your Stutter Edit Track in the track view and from the drop-down
box that appears over the meter, select the "MIDI Input" or controller you want to use to
play Stutter Edit.

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4. Make sure the Input Monitoring (speaker icon button) is on so that MIDI will be sent from
your controller to Stutter Edit. You can now trigger Stutter Edit gestures from an external
controller.

OR:

5. To sequence Stutter Edit without a controller, simply add a MIDI item to your Stutter Edit
track and enter notes with your cursor.

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